[PATCH 4.5 180/200] perf/core: Dont leak event in the syscall error path

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.5-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 201c2f85bd0bc13b712d9c0b3d11251b182e06ae upstream.

In the error path, event_file not being NULL is used to determine
whether the event itself still needs to be free'd, so fix it up to
avoid leaking.

Reported-by: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 130056275ade ("perf: Do not double free")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87twk06yxp.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/events/core.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8479,6 +8479,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 					f_flags);
 	if (IS_ERR(event_file)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(event_file);
+		event_file = NULL;
 		goto err_context;
 	}